Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 18

Chestnut-tailed Minla

Printed “Striped-throated Siva”

Volume IV, plate 18 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Chestnut-tailed Minla (Actinodura strigula)
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Printed on the plate

“Striped-throated Siva”

Siva strigula

Engraved caption: SIVA STRIGULA, Hodgs.

Modern identification

Chestnut-tailed Minla

Actinodura strigula

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Laughingthrushes and Allies · Leiothrichidae

Why

Hodgson's Siva strigula = Chestnut-tailed Minla, now Actinodura strigula; same species, newer genus.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. IV); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; pinned in Featherframe (gould_asia.yaml)

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter & Cohn, Imp.

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